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A 5-year-old passenger was trapped under a 2002 Mercury Mountaineer SUV after being ejected when the vehicle rolled multiple times on Interstate 75 in Grant County.
The Dry Ridge Fire Department was successfully able to raise the vehicle to retrieve the child, who suffered multiple fractures in both legs.

Kentucky State Police dispatch received the call about the single-vehicle crash near the northbound 162 mile marker around 3:30 p.m. Feb. 12.

The Dry Ridge Fire Department and deputies from the Grant County Sheriffs Office were dispatched to the scene.

The open position Grant County Parks and Recreation director could be filled as early as next week.
“Little League starts March 15 and you have practice and everything,” said Judge-Executive Steve Wood. “We’re going to fill this position by the first of March.”
The role became vacant after former director Tabatha Clemons was elected county clerk in the November 2014 general election.
The county advertised the job in January and received about 10 to 12 resumes, according to Wood.

Two well-respected Black citizens of Dry Ridge were Percy and Maude Porterfield Rice. Percy was born on Feb. 1, 1882 in Utal, Alabama. When Percy was asked how he happened to come to Grant County, he said he started traveling from Alabama to St. Louis, then to Denver, Colorado, back to Cincinnati and finally ended in Grant County in 1914.

Improvements to the Brent Spence Bridge corridor could be closer to reality, but those improvements likely will come with drivers paying tolls.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Ohio Gov. John Kasich jointly announced Jan. 28 a goal of creating a cost-savings plan for the project between Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati.
The bi-state, bi-partisan commitment unveiled includes:
• Lowering the project’s price tag through innovative solutions in design, construction and financing